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These are exciting times with ever-more powerful smart systems deployed in industry after industry. But as systems grow more complex and interconnected, they can become harder to understand and to control. “Our highly complex IT systems must become much more automatic and resilient, capable of self-healing when failures occur and self-protecting when attacked,” CIO Journal Columnist Irving Wladawsky-Berger writes.

Rather than a Terminator-type future where humans battle machines, Google’s Ray Kurzweil envisions a more harmonious future where people and machines co-exist peacefully. They may even become our newest colleagues.

Within five to eight years, search engines will start to appear much more human-like, according to Google Inc. engineering chief Ray Kurzweil. They will respond to long and complex questions, understand the meaning of the documents that they are searching, and be on the look-out for information they think might be useful to people.

Google executive Ray Kurzweil says artificial intelligence will help companies tackle the most vexing problem presented by Big Data, but that IT decision-makers have to plan on where they believe the world will be in a year or two, rather than where it is today.

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